title: Primary spinal extra-osseous intradural mesenchymal chondrosarcoma in a young boy.
abstract: Primary spinal intradural mesenchymal chondrosarcoma is rare. We report the case of a 6-year-old boy to emphasize on the importance of considering this entity as differential diagnosis even when the lesion is purely intradural with no bony involvement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Mazda K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Turel
authors.forename: Vedantam
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rajshekhar
keywords: Bone tumors; Intradural; Pediatrics; Spine; extraosseous; mesenchymal chondrosarcoma